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Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser developed for Microsoft Windows, OS X, and Linux, coordinated by Mozilla Corporation and Mozilla Foundation. Firefox uses the Gecko layout engine to render web pages, which implements current and anticipated web standards.

As of October 2012, Firefox has approximately 20% to 24% of worldwide usage share of web browsers, making it the second or third most widely used web browser, according to different sources. According to Mozilla, Firefox counts with over 450 milllion users around the world. The browser has had particular success in Indonesia, Germany, and Poland, where it is the most popular browser with 65%, 47% and 47% of the market share, respectively.

The Firefox project began as an experimental branch of the Mozilla project by Dave Hyatt, Joe Hewitt and Blake Ross. They believed the commercial requirements of Netscape's sponsorship and developer-driven feature creep compromised the utility of the Mozilla browser. To combat...

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Mozilla first launched Firefox for Android in March 2011. Although Android users were enthusiastic about the launch, that enthusiasm quickly turned to frustration over things like the start-up speed of the app, the amount of memory it took to run it,...

If you thought you'd be happily browsing the web in either Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox on that Windows 8 tablet you're planning on buying, think again. According to Mozilla, Microsoft is planning to restrict the capabilities of third-party brows...

Google's Chrome browser became the most-used browser in the world for one day last weekend, according to web analytics company StatCounter. A new report by StatCounter revealed that Chrome became the top global Internet browser for the first time on ...

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After releasing a new version of its browser, Firefox 11, the Mozilla foundation has laid out its plans for 2012, and there are definitely some interesting things in the works for one of the most popular web browsers out there. Part of the plans Mozi...

Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. Today, we’re looking at three particularly interesting stories. Encyclopaedia Britannica to Stop Selling Print E...

If you're reading this on a PC, it's probably on Google Chrome or Firefox -- the two most popular browsers on Windows that Mashable readers use. It's a telling example about how most tech-savvy Windows users don't use the default browser on their mac...

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It's version 10. Do you know where your Firefox is? Yes, rev up your update engines. Firefox 10 -- the latest in a dizzying series of upgrades -- is now available for your browsing pleasure. This is Mozilla's seventh major browser release in the last...

Much to the annoyance of many of its users, Facebook is always changing. The recent Timeline revamp is the last in a series of tweaks to the social networking service, some good, some bad, and some just plain ugly. Do you like the news "ticker?" How ...

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Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. Today, we’re looking at three particularly interesting stories. Internet Explorer Still the Most Popular Browser...

Microsoft's Internet Explorer is still the world's most popular browser, but it and Mozilla's Firefox lost a lot of market share to Google's Chrome in 2011, which is now firmly in second place. According to StatCounter's 2011 data, Internet Explorer ...

Mozilla has extended its search partnership with Google for at least three additional years, the company has announced. Under the terms of the agreement, Google will continue to be the default search provider for Mozilla's web browser, Firefox. The f...

Mozilla is hoping people see the socially-minded side of its popular Firefox web browser with a new celebrity-fueled charity campaign called the Mozilla Firefox Challenge. The Challenge, hosted on the Crowdrise fundraising platform, pits 12 celebriti...

Tumblr, Firefox and Reddit drew broad black lines on their websites Wednesday to protest a proposed U.S. law that Internet companies have dubbed "censorship" and entertainment companies "piracy protection." Their symbolic design tweaks coincide with ...

It's a big week for Mozilla, as Firefox celebrates its seventh birthday and Firefox 8 hits the interwebs. In recent years, Firefox has lost ground to browsers such as Google Chrome. Yet Firefox remains a significant and important part of the browsing...

Kindle Cloud Reader, Amazon's HTML5 app that lets you read Kindle books both online and offline from your browser, is now available for Firefox. Amazon made the Kindle Cloud Reader available to users of Chrome, Safari for desktop and Safari for iPad ...

The new major release of Mozilla's web browser, Firefox 8, officially launches Nov. 8. However, as usual, it's available to download on Mozilla's servers a bit early, meaning you can install it right now. The Windows version of Firefox 8 is here, whi...

Internet Explorer can no longer claim more than half of the web's traffic, as of October, ending more than a decade of the default Microsoft browser's reign. Safari's hold on 62.17% of mobile traffic has reduced IE's overall share of web browsing, de...

Google's 3 year-old Chrome browser just hit the 200 million user mark, CEO Larry Page announced Thursday. The fast-growing browser had about 160 million users in May, up from 120 million in December 2010, according to eWeek, which correctly predicted...

Chrome is poised to overtake Firefox as the world's second most popular browser after Internet Explorer by December, according to web analytics firm StatCounter. Chrome's share of the global market for the month is hovering around 23.6%, roughly 3% b...

Mozilla's rapid release schedule for Firefox continues with the arrival of Firefox 7 for Mac, Windows and Linux. Firefox 7 comes less than six weeks after the release of Firefox 6. Mozilla moved to a more rapid release cycle with a more streamlined, ...

Mozilla has offered a first glimpse of its Firefox for Tablets web browser. The company described the new product as "an evolution of its phone based predecessor, with some added enhancements that take advantage of a tablet’s larger screen size," in ...

If you're a Firefox user, you probably noticed that the browser, once painfully slow to reach a major new version, has grown from version 4 to 6 in less than half a year. This is due to the "rapid release process" that Firefox maker Mozilla has recen...

Firefox 6 isn't scheduled to be released until Tuesday, but Mozilla has uploaded installation files to a FTP server for those who want to get their hands on the upgraded browser early. Although the new version doesn't sport any major UI changes, the ...

Google's web browser Chrome is now the second most-popular browser in the United Kingdom, according to web metrics company Statcounter. Chrome's market share has been on an upward trajectory globally, but in the UK Google's browser has been doing exc...

Update: The study has turned out to be a hoax. More here. A recent study links intelligence test results with browser usage -- and the results don't look good for users of Microsoft's Internet Explorer, especially its older versions. The study, title...

Google Toolbar for Firefox has long been a ubiquitous add-on for the popular open source browser, but Google decided it's no longer needed. "As we all know, over the past few years, there has been a tremendous amount of innovation in the browser spac...

Just three months after the release of Firefox 4, Mozilla has pushed out Firefox 5 for the desktop and Android devices. That's a big change from the two years it took to move from Firefox 3.5 to Firefox 4. Firefox 5 is part of Mozilla's new rapid rel...

Lacking some 3D in your online life? You're in luck, as Mozilla Firefox, YouTube and Nvidia have teamed up to bring HTML5-based stereoscopic 3D video to owners of Nvidia's 3D Vision-enabled hardware. Although 3D videos aren't new to YouTube, the serv...

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